487 quotes
The mind advances only when it has the patience to go in circles, in other words, to deepen.
The New Gods (1969)
An anxious man constructs his terrors, then installs himself within them: a stay-at-home in a yawning chasm.
The New Gods (1969)
In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.
History and Utopia (1960)
The only interesting philosophers are the ones who have stopped thinking and have begun to search for happiness.
Tears and Saints (1937)
The unfortunate thing about public misfortunes is that everyone regards himself as qualified to talk about them.
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
The only minds which seduce us are the minds which have destroyed themselves trying to give their life a meaning.
The Temptation to Exist (1956)
To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
It's not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
History and Utopia (1960)
One would have to be as unenlightened as an angel or an idiot to imagine that the human escapade could turn out well.
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
I admire only two types of people: the potentially mad and the potential suicide.
On the Heights of Despair (1934)
In a single second we do away with all seconds; God himself could not do as much.
A Short History of Decay (1949)
How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.
On the Heights of Despair (1934)
After all, why should ordinary people want to contemplate the End, especially when we see the condition of those who do?
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.
A Short History of Decay (1949)
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live — moreover, the only one.
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
There is an innate anxiety which supplants in us both knowledge and intuition.
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
I seem to myself, among civilised men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers.
History and Utopia (1960)